Great news! I started my selfhost journey over a year ago, and I’m finding myself needing better hardware. There’s so many services I want that my NAS can’t handle. And I unfortunately need to add GPU transcoding to my Jellyfin setup.

What’s the best OS for a machine focused on containers and (getting started with) VMs? I’ve heard Proxmox

What CPU specs should I be concerned about?

I’m willing to buy a pre-built as long as its hardware has sufficient longevity.

  • @LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    1•22 days ago

    Thanks, that’s some of the info I’m needing to make the jump over. How’s the learning curve? One of my big concerns is wrapping all of these things under Tailscale. It was easy on Synology, but Proxmox (I imagine) isn’t as straightforward. Eventually, I’d like to switch to headscale, but one thing at a time

    • ScrubblesEnglish
      2•22 days ago

      Just focus on one project at a time, break it out into small victories that you can celebrate. A project like this is going to be more than a single weekend. Just get proxmox up and running. Then a simple VM. Then a backup job. Don’t try to get everything including tailscale working all at once. The learning curve is a bit more than you’re probably used to, but if you take it slow and focus on those small steps you’ll be fine.